Merry Christmas To you All Richminers

I listen to each question

And answer every one.

Although I am ashamed to say

I must say no to some.

But Santa never scares me;

He doesn't even scold.

He just says, "Try again, my dear,

You're a fine lad, I am told."

Gee, I like to visit Santa Claus

When Christmastime is near.

It's fun to climb up on his lap 

And whisper in his ear...

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There was seen a radiance 

Glowing one night 

Near the little maiden Mary 

In blue and white.

"Lilies are not fairer, 

"Roses more red, 

Than the Child she sings to slumber," 

An angel said.

So the shepherds ventured 

Through the white cold, 

And their eyes beheld the Infant, 

An hour old.

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Long they gazed and wondered, 

Awkward in awe, 

At the paramount perfection 

Within their straw.

"Diamonds are but trifles! 

"Rubies no gem!" 

Cried the hearts that slaved for pittance 

Near Bethlehem.

So it was forever, 

After the night 

When the little maiden Mary 

Wore blue and white.

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May this Christmas be the first of many, 

Each more joyous in our growing love, 

Revealing more of happiness than any 

Riches might provide or pain remove. 

Years flow like an unrepentant river, 

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Carrying the soil of life away, 

Holding far more than they can deliver, 

Rushing past the certitudes that stay. 

In love there is an instance of forever 

So shy and lovely it eludes the eye, 

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The sense of being home when we're together, 

More enduring than a reason why. 

As love is born of passion, borne by will, 

So may for many years we choose love still.

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A diamond shines no brighter

than that lovely Christmas star.

It shines in all its brilliance;

it's seen from near or far.

We wish you richminers a lovely merry christmas.

Becoming the Genius that you are in Business: A manual

Has anybody ever told you life is not a bed of roses, has anyone told you life is full of risk and has someone be him a foe or a friend ever told you to take a risk? If yes, then such is a typical entrepreneur.
Just dreaming to be something is not enough to achieve your goal but it requires action which comes with the risk of gaining, loosing or making a break-even. Haven recognize this, then you are ready to set for the journey of being an entrepreneur. Here are tips to becoming and entrepreneur:

1. EXAMINE YOUR PERSONALITY/PERSON
The first step you take to becoming a world class entrepreneur required examining your kind of person, which has do to with your priorities whether you can accept uncertainty and failure. Most entrepreneurs you know like Bill Gate, Donald Trump, Steve Jobs, Richard Branson have failed at one point in time but they kept going.
Apart from being able to accept uncertainty you must be able to offer solution to peoples problem, and then you must be determined to succeed which helps you never to give up even at trying times.

2. SET YOUR FOUNDATION
Entrepreneurship is like a building that requires a foundation. This foundation is what will determine the survival of the business in the long-run. It requires a strategic plan, which entails the premise behind the existence of your business. It is here you brainstorm ideas and set a strategy into making the ideas become reality. This foundation entails making a research on your market and meeting the potential customers in order to ascertain where their needs are unmet with the goal of satisfying those needs.

3. PREPARE YOUR BUSINESS PLAN
As an entrepreneur you need to create a business plan that shows what basically your company or firm is all about, including it prospective aspirations. A business plan typically describes what your company does (whom does it serve? what does it provide?), provides a market analysis, includes a detailed description of the product or service, and projects the expected financial future of your company for the next 3-5 years. It is important to note that how good your business plan is, will go a long way in helping you raise capital from family, friends, banks and other investors or financial institutes.
 To prepare a good business plan, you will require the help of a professional, however you can come back to this blog (Bestarz Blog) tomorrow to see how you can write an excellent business plan.

4. PREPARE A BUSINESS ELEVATOR PITCH
  This is simply a step by step procedure that entails introducing your business to individuals or firms who might be interested in investing. Before this, you need to prepare a very short and concise Power Point presentation that tells your prospective investors and customers what problem you are solving and how you are going to solve it.
 
5. CREATE A NETWORK, ADVERTISE AND SELL..
  With your presentation ready, it is time to create a network where you meet individual investors and customers, introduce your business and create a network be it offline and online. Tell them why your product is unique and how it is going to meet their wants. If you do this accurately, then you will be able to start earning or making huge sale with a little effort.
Well don't forget your advert must be catchy and informing.
A word to remember
"It is not your fault that you are born poor but it is your fault if you die poor" Bill Gate.
Take the risk that yields to success. Have a beautiful day

The Question You Ought to Answer as an Entrepreneur in the current millennium

Today we all struggle to achieve one thing as entrepreneurs which is success, but then it is important to note that a good business idea is not just good enough for us to succeed, it requires questions which we all must answer.
 You hear of individuals like Mark Zuckerberg of facebook, Steve job of Apple Inc, Donald Trump Jr the republicans candidate for US presidential race, Larry page of google, Jeff Bezos of Amazon and many more successful entrepreneurs around the globe because of the answers they were able to identify from this four Ws and a H. Mind you, they are not just answers which might be right but rather a market reliable answers which are right.

 These four Ws and H are.
These questions are key areas describing the entrepreneur idea and how it will happen:
1. WHY is it needed
2. WHAT is the business idea
3. WHERE will it take place
4. WHO will the enterprise serve
5. HOW will it be delivered
 
 WHY IS IT NEEDED
After identifying a business idea, it is important to sit and give out tangible reasons why the business is needed. This can be seen from the perspective of social and economic objectives. This social objectives can be you want to reduce the number of unemployment and offer a satisfying service from the economic objectives to make a fair profit.
If you have discovered a catering idea, it might be you want people to live a healthy life by offering food with low calories, a fresh organic fruit. It is important that your reasons should be purely customer oriented satisfying need, let it be a challenge for example obesity, that you are trying to help fight with your food or product.

WHAT IS THE BUSINESS IDEA
This question requires you to state or write out the unique nature of this business idea, what qualities make it different from the other services and products in the market, is they any innovation that makes your product and service special or different? For example it might be that your catering Idea aims to provide vegetarians with organic food which is hard to come by this days or delivery of your product or service at a place wanted.
You will have to look at the viability of the business idea in terms of future expansion, advertisement and many actions that brings out the image of the business to the notice of the public and provide answers to them.

WHERE WILL IT TAKE PLACE
The location of a business goes a long way in determining the success of the business. A caterer that offers fast food might want to be located in the heart of the city where organisations and business activities are at peak. A laundry service might be located in a residential areas of the rich, a delivery service might also be located in a business district, or it might possibly be a mobile business.
Your business idea no matter how great it seems will fail if the idea and location are not match. So you need to provide an answer of Location to the perfect match of your business idea.

 WHO WILL THE ENTERPRISE SERVE
This question aims at identifying your potential and prospective customer base. For example the catering idea might serve vegetarians and non-vegetarians, it might be directed to diabetes patients that requires food less of sugar or workers who need fast food for breakfast or lunch while at work.
The key to every successful business is identifying your customer base even before embarking on the business. Sometimes it is even important to identify if your business is going to serve the rich class, the medium class or the poor class, this also helps you to serve your customer better.

HOW WILL IT BE DELIVERED
This is based on how your product and services will be delivered to your customers but then it depends on your staff scale, your funding, your Fixed resources like the number and size of vehicles and the management. If your staff scale is large with adequate machineries like cars then you can be able to deliver a home services.

So haven understand this, pick up your pen and access the viability of your business idea, it has to be encompassing and must offer a solution to peoples need and if it is a common business idea then they must be innovation in your product/services. Remember if you don't see fault in the way people conduct their business or deliver a service, then you need a rethink....

Secrets to Business Start-ups: Why Waste Time if Ready.

Let me start by saying an idea is not always the most difficult thing to identify in the course of building your business but the ability to put it to use. The truth is almost every graduate wants to be a CEO, he has a marketable idea but the challenge is the ability to make it a reality or brings it to life. Creating or building your dream business might be less attractive to many people considering that they are now living in an unfriendly economic condition. They tend to believe that this is not the right time for them to start their dream business.

The thing about building your dream business is that you have to start immediately. There should be no more time to waste. Listening to what the naysayers have to say is more likely to get your nowhere. Regardless to the current condition of the global economy, there would be no better time for you to start building your business than now. Once you set your mind on this matter, you might as well follow these steps necessary to building the business of your dreams below:

1. BE FOCUS: The first and the most important step of all would be to start with a clear mind and heart. You might need to forget about all the expectations that you have in mind. Make sure that you remove all those distractions that will take you away from the core of your business plan before you jump in.

2. ENTREPRENEUR INTEREST: Once you have cleared your mind and heart from all those unnecessary distractions, you can go on with making a list of all your passions and strong points. Building a business based on somebody else’s interest might be a wrongfully move. The business of your dream should allow us to make the most of our strong points instead of dealing with our weakness. A dream business is more likely to give us the opportunity to do what we love the most. To make it short, the business of our dream would be the one that allows us to develop our strengths and enjoy our interest.

3. CREATE A PICTURE OF YOUR POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS: The next step would to have a clearer picture on your mind about how other people might feel once they encounter with your business. This would be an important step that will help you determine who your potential clients are. It will also give you a better insight on how to attract clients to your business.

4. YOUR IDEA SHOULD OFFER SOLUTION TO PEOPLE NEEDS: Considering that you have recognized your own strengths and passions, it is about time for you to come up with a list of business that cater to those personal aspects. That way, you will have a better picture about the opportunities that will support your strengths and passions.

5. IDENTIFYING THE RIGHT IDEA: The list has to be very comprehensive and pay more attention on the current marketplace might be very helpful for you. Once you create yourself a very comprehensive list of business and opportunities, you need to narrow them down in a way that you have a list of businesses that resonate with you the best.

6. ENTREPRENEUR ASSESSMENT: Now think about your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats as you analyze the existing choices. That way, you might end up having the most advantageous business idea to start your own business.

7. THE BUSINESS PLAN: The last step would be to come up with a clear marketing plan. Once you are certain about your most suitable business model, you need to create an action-oriented business plan that will help you determine your most effective marketing strategies.

8. BRANDING AND ORGANISATION: A secret of every business idea is the ability to brand and communicate what problems your business intends solve or solution it intends to offer. The logo, a good documentation, a registration and an address is a good start ups tips that gives your clients the confidence to trust your product. If you do have workers you must learn to maintain a good subordinate management relationship, which will also translate into customers management relationship. 

Everyone is an entrepreneur the difference is the ability to put it into profitable venture. So why the wait, if you think you have fulfill the criteria discuss above you can dive into the sea of opportunities. Therefore I live you with the words of Strive Masiyawa "If you are not full of curiosity then you are not an entrepreneur", Wish you a Merry Christmas in advance.